These are ideas and requirements we have heard surfaced but do not have the resources to undertake in light of other priorities. Please contact us at oacops@cdlib.org if you would like to advocate for or take on any of these projects, and/or if you have additional project ideas you do not see here.

There are a lot of opportunities to innovate in the area of finding aid display.

High

This is an all-team activity that would require significant time in a dedicated project period.

It may also require additional resources beyond the OAC/Calisphere team for UX design, graphic design, etc.

Full-text search on Calisphere

Calisphere would support the search of ALL metadata fields as well as the full textual content of objects, in alignment with user expectations.

UC-Nuxeo Calisphere contributors

Calisphere contributors with legacy METS

Currently, certain metadata fields (like transcription) and the text of objects themselves are not searchable. This is pretty sad / contrary to user expectations. It also results in less visibility for objects that have had the work of transcription, OCR, etc.

Such functionality would also support search within a complex object (e.g. for whole book-like objects where the user might want to hone in on a particular passage.)

It's possible that full text search could aid in search engine optimization (SEO)

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Deep harvest of legacy OAC METS into Calisphere

Enable users to stay on Calisphere to view OAC-harvested objects and provide full viewing/player environment there

UC Berkeley

Calisphere contributors with legacy METS

Currently users must click three times to fully engage with METS content – first they get to the page on Calisphere, then they have to go into OAC, then they get the viewer. It's confusing and annoying.

METS are sizeable – they account for about 25% of Calisphere content, including all Bancroft content.

Stats reporting is tricky.

There is a risk on the other side, which is the OAC content may be picked up more in Google Images.